She is so good for me 🙂
This morning Lynda and Stuart went off out for a walk leaving us to our own devices. The kids played for a while and then put a film on – Toy Story 2, while Ady and I did some work on our cash flow stuff to present to my parents.
L&S were back for lunch before heading off again to collect their granddaughter, Hannah from school. She is six and we’ve never actually met her although having seen so many photos and video clips of her it feels as though we have always known her. She is very curious about Davies and Scarlett, these intruder children who have known her Nanny and Grandad since before she was even born, come to stay and play with her toys and live a very different life to her. She has equally seen many photos of them and has been particularly entranced by Scarlett with her long hair and all her pet birds, Lynda said she talked about Scarlett and her ducks for months after she showed her those pictures.
So this visit we arranged that we’d be here to meet Hannah for the first time. L&S went off to fetch her from school while the kids watched two more films – Nanny McPhee and Jungle Book 2. I watched Nanny McPhee with them because I like that 🙂 then I went and got dinner sorted, lasagne. Ady theoretically watched the second film with them too but actually he snoozed on the sofa 😉
They arrived home and after a very brief period of sizing each other up Hannah, Davies and Scarlett got on really well and played together. They spent some time outside, Davies showed Hannah how to make animations on the 3DS and they sat and chattered together over their dinner and pudding. She’s a very sweet little girl and they found plenty to talk about. Most amusing was when she asked ‘why don’t you have to go to school?’ to which Scarlett airily replied ‘oh, it’s our choice’ and moved on to the next topic.
Apparently when she got in the car to go home at the end of the evening she said to Lynda ‘I wish I could be Scarlett’. Not sure quite what it is about being Scarlett that she is so keen to emulate although Lynda did say she suspected it might be having a Davies 🙂 Always nice to see other kids look at mine and think they have a good life though 🙂
We watched a wildlife programme while L&S ran Hannah home and I spent some time trying to find cats that need rehoming although I need to work out the details of that a little better so that we don’t end up with cats kept in cages for four days while we work our way up the country at the end of the month….hmmmm.
The kids went to bed when L&S got back and we shared a glass of wine and some further chatting. Lynda is always so very lovely to me, telling me how proud my parents should be of me and how wonderful she thinks our choices are. She knows my parents fairly well and doesn’t have much time for them really. I’m torn between feeling disloyal for listening to someone saying she thinks they are unsupportive and obstructive and feeling touched that someone who could quite feasibly be my mother is so very lovely to me.